Federal Officers Could Expand Beyond Portland; Trump Searches For Campaign Strategy
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🗓️ 20 July 2020
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Governor Kate Brown has asked the Department of Homeland Security to step aside, while President Trump threatened to dispatch federal officers to more cities.
NPR's Mara Liasson reports Trump was hoping to campaign on a thriving economy and a swift end to the pandemic. Surging cases have forced him to change his message — and given Joe Biden an opening.
Ongoing coverage of the Portland protests and police response from our colleagues at Oregon Public Broadcasting.
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| 0:00.0 | Jerome Adams, the surgeon general, is literally begging people. |
| 0:05.1 | Wear a mask. |
| 0:06.6 | And pleading with your viewers, I'm begging you. |
| 0:09.8 | That's viewers of Fox News. |
| 0:11.6 | Please understand that we are not trying to take away your freedoms when we say wear a face cover. |
| 0:16.2 | Adams cited a New York Times report that showed a pretty high rate of mask wearing in the US. |
| 0:21.6 | Around 80% of people in a couple recent surveys say they do it all or most of the time. |
| 0:26.8 | So a lot of people are doing the right thing. |
| 0:28.9 | But that varies dramatically depending on where you are. |
| 0:32.9 | Will you consider a national mandate that people need to wear masks? |
| 0:36.4 | No, I want people to have a certain freedom. |
| 0:38.6 | And I don't believe in that. |
| 0:40.0 | No. |
| 0:40.6 | The president in an interview on Fox News Sunday talked about masks basically the same way he has for months as an issue of freedom and personal choice. |
| 0:50.2 | And as you know, mask clothes problems too. |
| 0:52.2 | With that being said, I'm a believer in masks. |
| 0:54.6 | I think masks are good. |
| 0:55.7 | But I leave it up to the governors. |
| 0:58.5 | Masks might be up to the States, but the president has a different idea when it comes to policing. |
| 1:05.1 | This is Consider this from NPR. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm Kelly McEvers. |
| 1:08.4 | It's Monday July 20. |
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